O Brother

Famous quotes containing the word brother:

“I need not say what match I would touch, what system endeavor to blow up; but as I love my life, I would side with the light, and let the dark earth roll from under me, calling my mother and my brother to follow.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Not my brother or my sister, but it’s me, O Lord,
standin’ in the need of prayer:”
—African-American hymn-writer. “Standing in the Need of Prayer,” l. 3-4.